{"id":7240,"date":"2024-05-22T15:45:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T13:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curbs-magazin.com\/?p=7240"},"modified":"2024-05-22T15:45:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T13:45:19","slug":"helmut-kalenborn-the-king-of-the-mountain-on-mallorca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slickpix.de\/en\/people\/helmut-kalenborn-der-bergkoenig-von-mallorca\/","title":{"rendered":"Helmut Kalenborn \u2013 The Mountain King of Mallorca!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sporting and intercultural triumphant march of Helmut Kalenborn, born on April 2, 1940, began in the early seventies. He raced for the first time in Mallorca in 1976. Before that, the trained auto mechanic, who owned his own workshop in Euskirchen, had already invested a large part of his savings in racing cars. With them, he participated on weekends in national and international circuit and hill climbs in Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia at the time.<\/p>\n

Helmut Kalenborn's International Breakthrough on the Nordschleife<\/h2>\n

With an NSU-Brixner race car, Helmut Kalenborn achieved international breakthrough at the ADAC 500 km Eifelpreis race on September 3, 1972. On the Nordschleife, he sensationally took second place in his 1300 Brixner in the up to 1600 cc class, behind the Englishman John Blankley in a 1.6-liter prototype.<\/p>\n

Until 1975, Kalenborn competed in numerous races at the N\u00fcrburgring, Hockenheim, the airfield circuit in Mainz-Finthen, and Diepholz.
\nWhen in the mid-seventies he also contested numerous Formula Super Vee races, his competitors included, among others, future Formula 1 World Champion Keke Rosberg, as well as a multitude of the top Super Vee drivers of that era such as Prince \u201ePoldi\u201c of Bavaria, Mario Ketterer, Eje Elgh, Manfred Schurti, Josef Kaufmann, Manfred Trint, Axel Plankenhorn, Arie Luyendyk, and Kenneth Persson.<\/p>\n

With a surprise victory in 1975 on his Kaimann Super Vau at the International Hill Climb in Luxembourg, the Stra\u00dffeld driver once again made national sports headlines.
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